Re: yum and network blues . . . a mighty help anyone ?

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On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 18:31, Thiers Botelho wrote:
> I'm having some problems with yum on my dual boot desktop behind a 
> corporate firewall and proxy.
> 
> In order to get proxy auth for yum I unsuccesfully tried each of the 
> following (and probably some more combinations):
> 
> 
> =============export commands start========================
> 
> export proxy_http="http://172.16.16.91:8002/";
>         *** with quotes and without proxy login + password ***
> 
> export proxy_http=http://thiers:my_password_here@xxxxxxxxxxxx:8002/
>         *** without quotes and with proxy login + password***
> 
> export proxy_http="http://thiers:my_password_here@xxxxxxxxxxxx:8002/";
>         *** with quotes and with proxy login + password ***
> 
> export proxy_http=http://thiers@fertil:my_password_here@xxxxxxxxxxxx:8002/
>         *** now explicitly appending domain name ***
> 
> =============export commands end========================
> 
> 
> when doing 'yum check-update' I got always the same:
> 
> 
> =============yum output 1 start========================
> 
> [root@inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# yum check-update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name 
> resolution')>
> [root@inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]#
> 
> =============yum output 1 end========================
> 
> 
> At some moment it downed on me that 'failure in name resolution' might be 
> due to DNS problems, so I edited yum.conf to repeat all URL entries with 
> IP addresses instead of domain names.  Got a nearly identical output, 
> except for the final error message:
> 
> 
> =============yum output 2 start========================
> [snip]
> 
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (113, 'No route to host')>
> 
> [snip]
> =============yum output 2 end========================
> 
> 
> Then I went to  https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/     and 
> browsed for the messages. Not very encouraging: I read about old bugs in 
> urllib 
> (https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2004-January/003387.html), 
> suggestions to download the daily yum build, ASF.
> 
> 
> Now I don't suppose I'm the only FC user behind a picky firewall proxy, 
> and I'm sure there might be a way around this.
> 
> I don't intend to go to the shameful trouble of cooking up a local rpm 
> repo behind the firewall/proxy (well, at least not right now . . .)     :(
> 
> Any helpful hints ?
> 
> BTW, 1 - I can browse normally on Mozilla (after explicit proxy 
> authentication request), although It doesn't open https site above 
> (probably a certificate issue).
> 
> BTW, 2 - here's yum.conf  (AFTER I added some URL entries with IP 
> addresses):
> 
> =============yum.conf start========================
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=fedora-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
> retries=1
> 
> ##################
> ## Basic Fedora ##
> ##################
> 
> # adapted from http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/samples/yum.conf
> # www.las.ic.unicamp.br = 143.106.60.117
> # mirrors.kernel.org    = 204.152.189.120
> 
> [base]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os
>   http://143.106.60.117/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os
>   http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os
>   http://204.152.189.120/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os
> gpgcheck=1
> failovermethod=priority
> 
> [updates-released]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> baseurl=http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
>  http://143.106.60.117/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
>   http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
>   http://204.152.189.120/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
> gpgcheck=1
> failovermethod=priority
> 
> =============yum.conf end========================
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Thiers
> 

Same here I also have the exact issue with up2date, I was waiting for
fc2 2 see if it would be fixed!
chad




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